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...least 100 people have been killed in a series of attacks by suspected Taliban militants, including a blast in Peshawar (above) that left 50 dead and the suicide-bombing of a military convoy near the Swat Valley in which 41 perished. But it was the Oct. 10 assault on the heavily guarded army headquarters in Rawalpindi that left Pakistanis shaken. Militants occupied the building--the equivalent of the U.S. Pentagon--for 22 hours before commandos freed 39 hostages, capturing one perpetrator and killing nine others. Analysts called the attack "unprecedented...
Levitt likes his timing, since he sees macro as something of a dead end. "The problems of the macroeconomy are just so hard and the degree of complexity so immense that it's almost hopeless to think that we would have really good models of those systems," he says, chatting at his house a few blocks from the University of Chicago, where he teaches. (A video of the interview is at time.com/levitt.) Aside from the complexity, there's a crucial data limitation. "We have one macroeconomy," Levitt explains. "We get to watch the world unfold once." That means...
During breaks, he jots notes on index cards and confers with his advisers: Josh Weiss, a baby-faced 25-year-old producer, and Dan Colla, a burly, affable childhood friend who is a dead ringer for the male model Fabio. After a sympathetic caller declares that the governor's staunchest political foes - including Illinois house speaker Mike Madigan, Governor Pat Quinn and state senate president John Cullerton - deserve to be pelted with rotten fruit, Blagojevich urges would-be assailants to aim for the head. Within a few mind-bending minutes, he slams Quinn's tax policies, speculates about the percentage...
...long been a pace-setter for journalistic freedom, Europe faltered, while Israel plummeted as officials cracked down on the press in the wake of military operations in the Gaza Strip. And amid increased censorship, surveillance and illegal arrests stemming from a controversial election, Iran plunged to near dead last. (See pictures of Iran's turbulent election and its aftermath...
...Argentina's defeat by Britain in the 1982 Falklands War by scoring two goals to sink England, the first illegally with a concealed fist that he wryly attributed to "the hand of God", and the second following a sublime run from the halfway line leaving the England defense for dead...